Overcoming the Migrant Worker Meltdown
Recent developments with regard to our migrant workers have persuaded me to write about this ongoing problem. We have seen the Prime Minister, the Foreign Minister and other Ministers addressing this issue during their visits to different countries in the past few weeks.

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Obama's Speech in Turkey and Hope for a Better World
PRESIDENT Barak Obama is truly a breath of fresh air in every sense of the term. That his presence means Bush is no longer around is in itself great news. It is for good reasons that the story about God telling the guy who came to White House looking for Bush made such rounds on the internet.

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The Diplomats We should Be Sending Abroad
NO, we will not be speaking of foreign policy or the making of it today. We have done that before; and if circumstances necessitate such deliberations again in the coming days, we will do so.

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PM's Saudi Trip And The Embarrassing Ministerial Conducts
The Prime Minister's just concluded visit to Saudi Arabia, although taken for the purpose of performing the Umrah, achieved significant results in the shape of furthering Bangladesh's bilateral interests in the Kingdom where some 2.5 million Bangladeshis live and work.

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Focus on Our Fumbling Foreign Office
Four months ago Sheikh Hasina appointed two of her Young Turks as the Foreign Minister and the State Minister for Foreign Affairs, giving a stunning surprise to all.

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Hurdles to Regional Cooperation in South Asia
In the age of globalization, countries are coming ever so closer as borders fall to bring them into economic integration. Although globalization as a concept has come into common usage not very long ago, the trend towards this regional integration of nations started long before globalization came into common usage.

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Manpower Maelstrom
The Malaysian government's decision to revoke 55,000 Bangladeshi work visas has shocked everyone. This shows the lack of preparedness of this government for dealing with situations out of the ordinary.

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Japanese investment in BD: Pros and cons
Japanese Ambassador His Excellency Masayuki Inonyue had done two notable things since December 29th elections. He arranged a telephone conversation between Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and the Japanese Prime Minister Mr. Taro Aso that should lead to positive developments in bilateral cooperation.

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Fine Tuning Our Foreign Policy Directions To Changing Global Realities
In the Awami League election manifesto 2008, foreign policy was not one of the five priority issues to be addressed once it was elected to form a government. Foreign policy was placed as the last item of the 23 item Block List of Doables.

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Future Directions of Bangladesh Foreign Policy
In the age of globalization the modernist principle that “foreign policy is an extension of domestic policy” has practically lost its relevance. And this is true not only for the relatively disempowered developing countries but also for the relatively empowered developed economies.

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